754
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This article is about the year 754. For the number (and other uses), see 754 (number). For the computer standard, see IEEE 754. For the CPU socket, see Socket 754.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 720s 730s 740s – 750s – 760s 770s 780s |
| Years: | 751 752 753 – 754 – 755 756 757 |
| 754 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 754 DCCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1507 |
| Armenian calendar | 203 ԹՎ ՄԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5504 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1090–-1089 |
| Bengali calendar | 161 |
| Berber calendar | 1704 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1298 |
| Burmese calendar | 116 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6262–6263 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年十二月初四日 (3390/3450-12-4) — to —
甲午年閏十一月十三日(3391/3451-intercalary 11-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 470–471 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 746–747 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4514–4515 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 810–811 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 676–677 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3855–3856 |
| Holocene calendar | 10754 |
| Iranian calendar | 132–133 |
| Islamic calendar | 136–137 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 754 DCCLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3087 |
| Minguo calendar | 1158 before ROC 民前1158年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1297 |
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Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 754 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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- Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at Saint-Denis outside Paris; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.
- Fire breaks out in Canterbury.
- The oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara is from this year (approximate date).
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- The Iconoclast Council of Hieria meets.
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[edit] Deaths
- June 5 – Saint Boniface (or 755)
- Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (b. 721)
- Carloman, Mayor of the Palace of the Franks (b. 716)
- Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales
- Hiltrud, duchess of Bavaria
- Cui Hao, Chinese poet (b. 704)
- Sunpadh, the revolting Persian cleric is killed near Hamedan during the battle with Mansur's army.
